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Subject:    PIF Migration Monitoring Spring 2001
Author: "Cecilia M. Riley" (criley@GCBO.ORG)
Date:       2/26/01 4:53 PM

TO: List and PIF Migration Monitoring Participants  

FROM: Cecilia Riley       criley@gcbo.org or 979-480-0999  

DATE: February 26, 2001  

SUBJECT: Spring Season Migration Monitoring Counts Begin 20 March-1 June 
2001  

Finally, it's time to think spring migration! Though we have had a 
relatively mild winter here in the Southeast, I know we are all anxious 
for spring. Not so much for better weather, but for the excitement that 
only birds in migration can bring. So dust off your binoculars and get 
into the field for Spring Migration Monitoring. I hope you will all 
participate with us again this year. As before, the goal is to obtain 
data on first landfall in spring, area of dispersal for migrants, 
identify species-specific migration pathways, density comparisons at 
multiple sites and between years, identification of 'hot-spots' and their 
motility between years and habitats used for stopover and for corridors 
between coastal and interior breeding sites.  

Assurance of the program's success will require several monitored sites 
in each state of the region. I hope that each of you will select a site 
(and/or get folks to commit to several sites) in your local area. The 
data collection protocol, designed by SE PIF monitoring gurus, is easy 
and it's a great excuse to abandon your desk for a couple of field hours 
a week.  

NEW THIS SEASON!

The Migration Monitoring program is online. Now you can go to the GCBO 
web site to print a copy of the field datasheet and you can enter your 
data online. Before the season gets started go to www.gcbo.org and check 
out the forms at "Migration Monitoring Data Entry". Then call or email 
(preferred) if you have questions. Though we are still working to make 
the page nicer to look at, the online data entry pages are easy to use. I 
hope you'll give it a try this season. If you have participated before, 
your previous year's data are already entered and you have been assigned 
an id number. To find your id number click on the button titled "Look up 
ID Numbers". Write down your id number and location id number then copy 
those to the entry form. Follow instructions to add bird data from there. 
Be sure you don't leave any blanks in the date field.  

We are looking forward to your participation!

Cecilia M. Riley
Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
103 West HWY 332
Lake Jackson, TX 77566
Voice: (979) 480-0999
Fax:    (979) 480-0777
CRILEY@GCBO.ORG
WWW.GCBO.ORG

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